L'isola di Sant'Erasmo.

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A watercourse on the island of Sant'Erasmo - (Marco Trevisan, Bazzmann+Venipedia)

A verdant island in the northern lagoon, once directly facing the Adriatic Sea, it is also called 'Orto di Venezia' (Venice's vegetable garden) in recognition of its typical agri-food production that is still active today.
Far from the mass tourism that invades Venice and other islands in the lagoon, on Sant'Erasmo one can still find the tranquillity of the countryside and experience its unspoilt nature.

Overlooking the Adriatic Sea until a relatively recent past, it then became entirely surrounded by lagoon waters following the construction of the north dam of the Lido of Venice and the formation of what is now called Punta Sabbioni, Sant'Erasmo is the largest of the islands of the Northern Lagoon and the second largest considering the entire lagoon, second only to the Lido of Venice: its length is about 4 Km while the width varies from 500 to 900 meters.

It is known today also with the name Orto di Venezia thanks to its important agri-food activity, testimony of a more extensi

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